Why, I mean that in order to ruin a poor innocent girl, in our neighbourhood, this amiable lord has prevailed on her to consent to a private marriage—and it now comes out that it was all a mock marriage, performed by a sham priest, and a false license!
— from The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Samuel James Arnold

The women have the family washing to do, and a girl is often needed to assist indoors, or a boy to clean the knives and shoes.
— from Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies

The (under the circumstances) speedy and condign punishment meted out to O'Brien elicited favourable comment from citizens generally irrespective of nationality, the Americans especially commenting favourably on it and contrasting it with their experience of similar incidents in mining regions of the Western States."
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

Oh, [Pg 121] it may kill you to go; I ought not to ask it.
— from A Girl of the Klondike by Victoria Cross

Working gently, in order not to alarm the spent bird, Dick and Greg soon had the window open, and Greg drew in the all but frozen little flyer.
— from The Grammar School Boys Snowbound; or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

As he talked he clasped her waist, gingerly, in order not to alarm.
— from The Westerners by Stewart Edward White

The principle is given in our nature, the application of the principle is the result of a thousand educational influences.
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart

It was his name for Guiana, in order not to alarm pro-Spanish jealousies.
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

Mr. Kerensky, who was well acquainted with the abnormal conditions reigning in the Caucasus, agreed to grant the request of the Armenian delegates, but, on the other hand, for fear of receiving similar requests from the other races in case he granted an order favorable to the Armenians, he decided to fulfill our request unofficially, that is, without a general ordinance, to send the Armenian soldiers to the Caucasus gradually, in small groups, in order not to attract the attention of the other races.
— from Why Armenia Should Be Free: Armenia's Rôle in the Present War by Armen Garo

If they would only go and use these gifts of God, instead of neglecting them as they have been doing for now three hundred years, they would be a blessing to the earth, instead of being—that which they have been.
— from Madam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children by Charles Kingsley